ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY MIKE PARR BIOGRAPHY 1945 Born Sydney, Australia Lives and works in Sydney, Australia EDUCATION 1965 The University of Queensland, Brisbane 1968 National Art School of Sydney, Sydney SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 The Eternal Opening, Schwartz Carriageworks, Sydney Towards a Black Square, DARK Mofo, Hobart 2018 KINDNESS IS SO GANGSTER, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Underneath the Bitumen the Artist, 72 hour durational performance, Dark MOFO, Hobart 2017 LEFT FIELD [for Robert Hunter], Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Empty Ocean, as part of ‘DARK MOFO’, Dennes Point, Bruny Island 2016 Give The People What They Want / Ideal Unions / Nazi Milk , Campbelltown Arts Centre Foreign Looking, survey exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Asylum, as part of 'DARK MOFO', former Royal Derwent Hospital, Hobart Entry by Mirror Only, 72-hour continuous performance as part of 'DARK MOFO', formerly the Willow Court Female Maximum Security Ward for the Criminally Insane 2015 Towards a Blind Self Portrait Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Dark Cave, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Deep North, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney THE GHOST WHO TALKS, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Mora 2013 Easter Island, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney Blind Self Portraits, ARNDT, Berlin 2012 Mike Parr. Edelweiß., survey exhibition, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Brain Coral, The National Art School Gallery, Sydney 2011 The Golden Age, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney 2010 The Hallelujah Chorus, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Fresh Skin like a Baby, performance, closed session, Sydney 2008 The Titled Stage, Detached, Hobart Milk, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney MIRROR/ARSE, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island Salto Mortale…The Nothing Self Portraits, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Blameless, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Preprints 1970-2005, survey exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Amerika, endurance performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Performance Space, Sydney Downward Envy, Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2005 Cut Your Throat An Inch At A Time: A Survey of the Work of Mike Parr 1970 – 2005, Newcastle Region Art Gallery The Underworld, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Kingdom Come and/or Punch Holes in the Body Politic, endurance performance, Artspace, Sydney 2004 The Mass Psychology of Fascism Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay (collaboration with Adam Geczy), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne 2003 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi, performance, Artspace, Sydney We Are All Monochromes Now, Sherman Galleries, Sydney ÆTHER / AWE, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Latemouth: Works on Paper, 1987–2003, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane film noir, politique blanche (with Adam Geczy), Performance Space, Sydney 2002 Close the Concentration Camps, performance, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Malevitch (A Political Arm), performance, Artspace, Sydney ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY 2001 Aluminum from the Mouth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Bloody Idiot Parr, Of course, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney Water from the Mouth, performance, Artspace, Sydney Ziv & Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2000 …de Kooning, de Kooning …, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Anna Schwartz Gallery, ARCO, Madrid Mike Parr, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Shallow Grave, performance, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Performance of 100 Breaths, Recontre internationale d’ art performance, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada 1999 Wrong Face, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Deep Sleep [The Analytical Disabling of Mind and Matter], Nixon/Parr performance, Old Parliament House & Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra Shadows of a Monument 1, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 1998 Photo Realism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne The Rest of Time, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Blood Box, performance, Artspace, Sydney Boobialla / Couta, performance, College of Fine Arts, Sydney The End of Nature, performance, Baltic Sea, Sweden 1997 Mike Parr, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Dead Sun, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The Delay in Glass, performance, Fukui Biennale, Fukui, Japan 1996 Mike Parr, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Self Portrait Project: Head on a Plate, New York Studio School, United States of America The Infinity Machine, Sherman Galleries, Sydney The White Hybrid (Fading), performance, Artspace, Sydney Unword, performance, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth 1995 The Illusion of the End, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Day Break, performance, Scene Shop Cultural Centre, Manila 1994 Mike Parr, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Echolalia (the road): Prints from the Self Portrait Project: Mike Parr 1987 - 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Fathers II (The Law of the Image), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 100 Breaths / 100 Songs from (ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings 5, 1993 – 1994, performance, (Performer: John Breheney), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Waste, performance, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney The Bridge, performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1993 100 Breaths from (ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings 2, performance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Pinch, performance, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Black Mirror/Pale Fire, Various Routes, Whistle/White, 3 performances, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Sydney Visiting Australian Artist, performance, Kunst, Sydney 1992 Mike Parr, City Gallery, Melbourne Survey of Prints, Delany Gallery, Perth ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE, 17 performances at Arthaus Perth 4 performances, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 4 performances, City Gallery, Melbourne 9 performances, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Memory of a Monochrome (for John Nixon), A-Atrophy, Field/ Felled, 3 performances, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney 100 Breaths from (ALPHABET / HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings 1, performance, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; and 4 performances from The Black Book for the Biennale of Sydney at The Gunnery The Shelf (with John Nixon), installation, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1991 3 Installations, City Gallery, Melbourne Mike Parr, Artist in Residence 1990 – 1991, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne Survey of Recent Work, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Survey of Recent Work + Plan for a White Labyrinth [Deafness/Absurdity], Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 1990 I Think Of Drypoint In Terms Of Braille And Excavation, Prints of Mike Parr, Drill Hall Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Drawings from the Self Portrait Project, 1983 - 1990, City Gallery, Melbourne A Survey of Prints by Mike Parr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Köln Art Fair, Cologne ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY 1989 Mike Parr/John Nixon, City Gallery, Melbourne Prints, Milburn + Arté Gallery, Brisbane 1988 North, Milburn + Arté Gallery, Brisbane 1987 The Slot (Photography), Reproduction Zero, The I of God (Untitled Self Portraits), United Artists, Melbourne The Green Self Portraits, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Acid Rain, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane 1986 The Parting of the Red Sea, Siegel Contemporary Art Inc., New York The Satellites of Death, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane Three Works, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1985 Portage, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 1984 Towards the Other Side (Self Quotations), three drawing series, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne 1983 Black Box: The Theatre of Self Correction Part 2, Performance Space, Sydney Cloacal Corridor (O Vio Prote/O Vio Proto/O Vio Loto/O Théthé) Self Portrait as a Pair or Self Portrait as a Pun, drawing installation; Identification Number 1: Rib Markings in the Carnarvon Ranges, North/West Queensland, Christmas 1975, photoseries; and screenings of Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1, 2, 3, as part of a performance presentation from George Brecht’s Water Yam, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 1982 A-Atrophy (Self Portrait at the age of 37), drawing installation, Art Projects, Melbourne 1981 Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, screening, Museum des 20 Juhrhunderts, Vienna; Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; National Art School, Dublin Rules & Displacement Activities Part 3 (nine Photoseries) and Black Box 1: The Theatre of Self Correction, 3rd Biennale of Sydney Portfolio, Sydney; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, curator: John Nixon Plain Images (with Robert Owen), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Alexander Mackie College, Sydney 1980 Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, screening together with slide lectures, Western Australia Institute of Technology, Perth 1978 Rules & Displacement Activities Parts 1 & 2, screening with lectures, Bela Balaczs Studio for Experimental Film, Budapest 1977 Cathartic Action/Social Gestus Number 5, performance, The Sculpture Centre, Sydney The Emetics/Primary Vomit Blue (I am Sick of Art), (performance), Watters Gallery, Sydney 1974 Information Centres 1 & 2, Contemporary Art Society Gallery, Adelaide; Central Street Gallery, Sydney 1973 Performance, Actions, Videosystems, Galerie Impact, Lausanne; Galerie Media, Neuchâtel